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Giving Trends in Kenya: How the Growth of Mobile Payments Are Transforming Community Giving

Nonprofit Tech for Good

In the local context, Kenyan’s give an extremely high proportion of their earnings as donations (cc. However, this type of community giving (known as Harambee in Kiswahili) usually goes towards individuals rather than organisations, common examples include medical bills, funeral costs & weddings.

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22 Statistics About #GivingTuesday Donors Worldwide

Nonprofit Tech for Good

From the 2020 Global Trends in Giving Report : 2) 9% of donors worldwide donated to a nonprofit, NGO, or charity on GivingTuesday 2019. Community development – 3%. 8) 47% donate to crowdfunding campaigns that benefit NPOs, NGOs, and charities. Of those, 83% donate to the NPOs, NGOs, and charities that they volunteered for.

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12 Online Fundraising Tools to Watch in 2019

Nonprofit Tech for Good

GroupRaise is an online system that enables restaurants to fundraise for local organizations with a 3-5 mile radius. YouTube has released a suite of new fundraising tools, namely Fundraisers, Community Fundraisers, Campaign Matching, and Super Chat for Good. The 2019 Global NGO Technology Survey is now live!

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Getting Social with Your Local Nonprofit Tech Community

Tech Soup

That's why each month NetSquared organizers in 60 cities across the globe host networking events for the nonprofit tech community. Check out the [blog]([link] to get a taste of our grassroots community. * **Katharine Bierce** recorded her recent [tech and philanthropy panel]([link]. Victoria, British Columbia: NGO Summer Social.

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TechSoup Local Impact Map Profile: Nonprofits Back to School — In Brazil

Tech Soup

Now that TechSoup’s Local Impact Map has officially launched , let's discover one of great new organizations featured there. Education is a major focus for nonprofits and NGOs, accounting for 9% of NGO activity worldwide. Not enough people really know what NGOs and nonprofits do for the world. Even in the U.S.,

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The Networked NGO in Pakistan

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I was very lucky to work with Stephanie Rudat on this project who has spent a lot of time in Pakistan training Youth Activist NGOs to use social media. Her knowledge of the country and the culture made it easier to localize the curriculum. We even localized and mixed up our energizers and icebreakers.

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Youth Programs Featured in TechSoup Global’s Local Impact Map

Tech Soup

TechSoup Global's new Local Impact Map is a trove of information on what nonprofits, NGOs, and libraries around the world are doing with their TechSoup-procured IT to further their missions. This NGO runs a primary day school, a residential high school, and a residential polytechnic college.

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